These days when you need to get a hold of someone, you fire up your trusty email client. For those rare occasions when snail mail is your only option, web site Snailmailr offers an alternative to the post office.

The site is simple enough: Just head to the home page, fill out the return address, destination, and then write your letter. After that, just verify that you've entered everything in correctly and pony up $1 ($0.56 more than the price of a postage stamp)—though you have to cough up $0.15 more if you don't want the Snailmailr branding across your letter (a little lame). Either way, if you don't want to waste a trip to the post office to buy stamps you don't need and send the rare letter, Snailmailr seems like a viable alternative.

Update: The site seems to have gone down temporarily. Sorry about that.